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Definitely. I snagged a couple of copies of FF #4 (CGC 5.5 and CGC 7.0) in November/December 2018 thinking it was overdue for a jump. The CGC 7.0 copy was a mistake that will work out - I was putting in proxy bids late at night on a Heritage auction after a few drinks and thought for sure that I was bidding on FF #5 instead of the FF #4 CGC 7.0. Thank goodness my bid was not run up to the level it was really at for an FF #5 instead.

I will disagree with you here. It is easy to spot the difference between W and OW in BA books. OW-W is a bit more difficult, but you can see a difference, especially between books from collections up here in relatively arid and cool Alberta vs. books from the US Eastern seaboard/SE.

The FF 48-50 story arc could be a cool way to bring the FF into the MCU. No need to redo another origin story now - just have them start off with a bang post-Fox acquisition as a team that has always been on Earth and is re-introduced to defeat Galactus. You can also tie in the Celestials, Eternals and Galactus premise from Earth X here - the head from Knowhere is a Celestial that Galactus decapitated during battle.

All they need to do in the Endgame post-credit scene is show the tip of a silver surfboard coming around the moon and seeing Earth.

Fanboy.

Wow. I wonder if WB/DC can do two non-Batman $1B+ films in a row?

Flip them fast if you have them........

Congrats on being granted permissions to do this for CGC this year, Marc. Can you stand in line for Sig Series for some of us vendors that will not get a chance to?

We will see how it all plays out. That being said, I did have a couple of collectors discuss page quality on some early FFs I had. They passed on the CR-OW copies in the end. This was the first time I have ever had that come up as an issue at the local shows so it will be interesting to see whether this becomes a bigger issue going forward.

This thread is turning nasty.

Here is a W page copy ending on Sunday: https://comics.ha.com/itm/bronze-age-1970-1979-/giant-size-x-men-1-marvel-1975-cgc-vf-80-white-pages/a/121910-12580.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

No need to attract attention to the book until I am done accumulating a few copies....

He's been fairly steady on American Gods. Reserved at times. But an enjoyable performance. He was good in the first season, and I have higher expectations of his character, Shadow Moon, for season 2. I think he would be fine as John Stewart.

Newb.

Silver Age-wise, there is one book I am picking up now that has a shot. There are better opportunities in BA for 2x - 3x returns.

FF 4 and FF 5 are ticking up nicely now as well.

Thanks for the heads up. I was just about to dump the few remaining DC Rebirth #1s I have in my $2 bins as part of a de-cluttering process.

I think there's a third set of people... let's call them group (c)... the people who never got the best Valiant books like Harbinger #1 back-in-the-day, always wanted the good pre-Unity books but settled for lesser books like Harbinger #10 or Shadowman #8 with the hopes that they would follow the pre-Unity books to the stratosphere. When those books didn't rise, after the market crashed, group (c) people were relieved that they didn't lose a lot of money on Valiant but secretly still wished they had Harbinger #1 and the other big books in their collections. What separates the group (c) collectors (since the crash) is when they returned to the back issue market, if they ever did. I was group (c) but I came back in 1997 on Ebay. Others came back around 2007, others around 2017... many others aren't back yet, may never be. Prior to 2007, it was basically impossible to get a CGC 9.8 Harbinger #1 (see the chart above), so there were a few that sold for very high prices before the CGC census exploded with (most likely) "lesser 9.8s" across the board (Harbinger #1, ASM #300, etc.). Buying Valiants from 1998 - 2002 was easy money. I can remember cleaning LCSs out of their remaining pre-unity/VVSS/Gold/Red/Blue/Platinum/etc. back stock at $0.10 to $1 per book. Those were the days......

Blashpemy! Just kidding. I own OW-W and W 9.4 copies and can't tell the difference.

Possibly, but I would argue it was more due to the fact that Alberta had a population of a whopping 73,022 in 1901, and this was basically comprised of poor European farmer immigrants (both sides of my family came here in the late 1890s and early 1900s from the Ukraine to farm) and cultural refugees. There were also a number of African Americans that had come up from the USA via the Underground Railway and/or a bit later to farm. Since Alberta was essentially a melting pot of poorer immigrants, sparsely populated, and had a harsher climate, different people had to work together to make ends meet (during the 1800s, those with money tended to settle in the larger cities in Eastern Canada or to not stray further west than Winnipeg for a long time, except for Vancouver on the Pacific Coast. The prairies were called the Nortwest Territories until 1905 for a reason ). The two groups that faced more racism here were Asian Canadians, especially Chinese (Chinese labour was used to build the rail network in Western Canada in the 1800s) and Japanese (increased in the 1930s/40s due to WW2 and internment camps here in the West), and the First Nations/Indigenous peoples (still a big issue today if you did not grow up in rural Alberta with First Nations/Indigenous neighours like some of us).

The cultural impact depends on where you live. Here in Alberta, there has never really been an issue with African Americans or African immigrants (likely due to the province really only being settled from the 1890s onwards), so the cultural significance was a moot point here. My view on Black Panther was similar to most of my non-comic collecting friends - it was a weaker Marvel movie when you look at it objectively. The story was mediocre and I did not care for most of the actors. The male leads were wooden/flat actors, especially BP and the "look how bad azz I am due to self-mutilation" cousin. If people complain about Brie Larson's emotionless/flat style, they saw the same in BP. The female leads were much stronger and better at their craft (acting). As I stated before, a First Nations/Indigenous or Asian super hero blockbuster film would carry way more significance here.

There is more competition on the market now with other artist exclusives, but he also needs to slow his offerings down. A new set every 6-8 weeks means collectors will be more picky.

Awesome work with JSC, Kevin! Any chance you can replace Michael Cho with Frank instead?

Not always. Here is tiny cameo that is still considered by the market to be the 1st appearance of Darkseid and sells for multiples of his first full appearance in Forever People #1.